Jazz musicians and South Slavic oral epic bards

dc.contributor.author	Foster, H. Wakefield	eng
dc.date.issued	2004-10	eng
dc.description	Albert Lord writes in The Singer of Tales (2000:13) that for the South Slavic oral epic poet, or guslar, "the moment of composition is the performance." The guslar is concurrently performer, composer, poet, and singer. In performance, he participates creatively in shaping the tradition of which he is a part rather than acting merely as a transmitter. Similarly, though in a much more restricted sense, European art music of the late nineteenth century embraced a concept of performance--as contrasted to presentation--in which the musician provided "linear tension that went beyond what could be notated . . . and freely manipulated every part of every phrase . . . to achieve a performance that was itself inherent to the process of communication" (Ledbetter 1977:149-50).	eng
dc.description	Issue title "Slavica." Note: E-companion at www.oraltradition.org at time of printing.	eng
dc.format.extent	22 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 19/2 (2004): 155-176.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64996
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Jazz musicians and South Slavic oral epic bards	eng
dc.type	Article	eng